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Extract from Archbishop Eames' Easter sermon
The Most Revd Dr Robin Eames,
Archbishop of Armagh
Extract from the Easter Sermon
St Patrick?s Cathedral, Armagh
Sunday 16 April 2006
?Two pictures dominate the Christian experience of Good Friday and Easter Day. From the Cross at Calvary Jesus spoke words of forgiveness. Central to the Resurrection on this day is hope.
Those two words are the core of the Easter experience for those who are rightly called ?the Easter people?.
But those words are central to the Christian Easter today. Forgiveness is bound up in the hope of the Resurrection.
Despite all the difficulties and set-backs things are changing in Northern Ireland. There is hope as we see what was unimaginable even a few years ago becoming a reality. But true reconciliation cannot be enforced. Forgiveness is part of reconciliation. Forgiveness demands much ? in fact too much for some. But understanding encompasses both hope and openness to each other. In that process we as a community can and must move on. The Resurrection experience demands nothing less??
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